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Understanding Serverless Scaling
The Cold Start Dilemma
When building serverless applications, the primary concern is usually the cold start. Cold starts happen when a new execution environment is spun up to handle a request.
Mitigation Strategies
- Provisioned Concurrency: Keeps execution environments initialized.
- Lean Dependencies: Reduce package size (e.g. replacing large ORMs with lean query builders).
- Language Choice: Go and Rust have significantly faster startup times compared to Java or .NET.
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